I know nothing of computer components, and my pc is outdated. Seems to lag on every intense game I want to play. I use my computer strictly for gaming and have a 1k budget.

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This post was edited by Penguins0690 on Dec 27 2017 05:06pm

It always helps to know: what games, what resolutions, what country.

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Thanks man! And the games are path of exile, blade and soul. I'm in america.

i would recommend an i5 over ryzen for those games in particular, they are games where single core perf is everything when things get most intense and the bad optimization hits the hardest.

source: i played bns a lot, been diamond in 1v1 and 3v3 a few times, burned out quite awhile ago though, the new patch was not as much of an overhaul as I was hoping for. also been playing PoE since piety was the last boss and just made a smooth 14kfg off Abyss and no stranger to lagshit burning ground pack size breach beyond maps, or how they perform across various hardware though ill admit I haven't tried Ryzen.

I don't know if there's any more laggy world content in bns like that dragon nightmare at launch but for raids you will definitely be happier with a higher clock speed i5. Although if you are mainly pvp for arena/bgs it really doesn't matter between i5 and ryzen.

As for gpu a 1050 ti would be ideal for 1080p, can't justify anything more than that, my gtx 960 murders those games at max settings and GPU utilization drops hard when things get intense in either game as the engines only max out 2 of of my haswell cores.

Though all that said, Ryzen is the overall better choice since it's a lot more cores/threads which is just nice to have even if they make no difference in the slightest for PoE/BnS, at 4ghz that's a respectable amount of single core perf that about equals mine which was plenty for either and never left me wanting more.

This post was edited by DCSS on Dec 27 2017 07:45pm

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This post was edited by DCSS on Dec 28 2017 07:37am

Nice edit

Thanks

This post was edited by DCSS on Dec 28 2017 07:39am